[NY Post] The maker of Jack Daniel’s whisky said it will pull back on its DEI initiatives, buckling to pressure on social media as an "anti-woke" activist said he was preparing to launch a boycott.
Spirits giant Brown-Forman Corp. — with a market capitalization of $21.37 billion — is the latest company to scrap its diversity, equity and inclusion program, following Harley-Davidson, Tractor Supply and John Deere.
Major firms who rely heavily on a red state clientele have been caving to boycott pressure from corporate activist Robby Starbuck, who said Jack Daniel’s was next on the list, but that the company reversed its policies before he got the chance to lead a boycott.
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For me.
Any company playing the latest 💩 Social Protest game is no better than the 💩 itself. Since they are willing to accept any pile of 💩 tossed at them to sell their product or services.
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Businesses make mistakes, all for the profit, or perceived profit. Now, they corrected their mistake, their capitol cash flow is going to hurt because of bank interest penalties for not being DEI compliant. We should now show support of the companies that are listening..
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[Regnum] An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 occurred in Kamchatka. This was reported on August 22 by the press service of the regional branch of the Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The tremor was recorded by seismologists at 02:30 Moscow time, the epicenter was located in the waters of Avacha Bay, 125 km from the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. The epicenter was at a depth of 46.3 kilometers.
So many earthquakes being reported! Is the earth still ringing like a bell from that big one some years back, or is it that the instruments are more sensitive now?
[NationalPulse] Former President Donald J. Trump has vowed to rehire every military veteran fired for declining to comply with the Biden-Harris regime’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate with an apology from the government and full back pay. He made the promise at a rally in Asheboro, North Carolina, alongside his running mate, Senator J.D. Vance—his first outdoor event since his near-assassination in Butler, Pennsylvania.“
Kamala and Crooked Joe purged 8,000 servicemembers from our military for refusing their Covid vaccine mandate,” Trump said.
“[The Trump administration] didn’t want a mandate… You just can’t do that,” he continued, vowing: “I will rehire every patriot who was fired from the military with an apology and with back pay. They will get their back pay and an apology from our government,” he promised.“
Hopefully, they have great jobs right now, and they’re making a lot of money, but if they want to come back in, they get an apology, and we sign them up, and they get their back pay… The mandate stuff should have never happened,” he lamented.
“Thanks to Comrade Kamala and Joe Biden, morale in our military is now so low that almost every single branch is suffering a major recruitment and retention crisis,” he observed.
The Biden-Harris regime also imposed vaccine mandates on federal government employees generally, federal contractors, and healthcare workers at facilities in receipt of Medicare and Medicaid funding.
[Washington Examiner] The U.S. military can no longer disqualify recruits who have undetectable viral loads of HIV from serving in the military.
U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled on Tuesday that the Pentagon’s arguments barring HIV-positive individuals from military service were not "supported by the evidence." Clinton Appointee
"Defendants’ policies prohibiting the accession of asymptomatic HIV-positive individuals with undetectable viral loads are irrational, arbitrary and capricious," the judge wrote. "Even worse, they contribute to the ongoing stigma surrounding HIV-positive individuals while actively hampering the military’s own recruitment goals."
Brinkema previously ruled in 2022 that the Defense Department could not prevent service members diagnosed after enlisting from deploying in active duty outside the continental U.S. nor from being commissioned as officers.
Three plaintiffs who were either barred from entry or who were already enlisted and denied promotion due to their HIV status in this recent case argued that the Defense Department’s policy was unlawful based upon the due process of the Fifth Amendment and the Administrative Procedure Act.
In defending its policy, the Defense Department listed that an asymptomatic HIV- positive individual still could pose risk to the military’s mission for they may not be taking their medicine on a regimented basis which could lead to their viral loads rising; HIV which is incurable could be transmitted to other service members either through "blood spatters or transfusions" and those living with HIV could suffer greater comorbidities impacting their health and ability to serve.
The Pentagon also raised concerns that the military would endure "significant costs" in order to pay for the HIV treatment of HIV-positive individuals. Antiretroviral costs are estimated to be between $10,000 and $25,000 per person annually.
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. regulators approved updated COVID-19 vaccines on Thursday, shots designed to more closely target recent virus strains -- and hopefully whatever variants cause trouble this winter, too.
With the Food and Drug Administration’s clearance, Pfizer and Moderna are set to begin shipping millions of doses. A third U.S. manufacturer, Novavax, expects its modified vaccine version to be available a little later.
"We strongly encourage those who are eligible to consider receiving an updated COVID-19 vaccine to provide better protection against currently circulating variants," said FDA vaccine chief Dr. Peter Marks.
The agency’s decision came a bit earlier than last year’s rollout of updated COVID-19 vaccines, as a summer wave of the virus continues in most of the country. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention already has recommended this fall’s shot for everyone age 6 months and older. Vaccinations could be available within days.
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Given all the evidence regarding the C-19 Vax adverse and deadly reactions. I am surprised the FDA thinks it has a Bat's chance in Hell the public will risk another round of clot-shots.
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[Regnum] Researchers studying the tracks of particles formed from billions of collisions of atomic nuclei at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) in the United States have discovered a new type of antimatter nucleus, which turned out to be the heaviest ever found. This was reported by the press service of the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL).
"Scientists <…> have discovered the heaviest antimatter nucleus ever discovered, antihyperhydrogen-4," the report says.
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The particle disappeared almost immediately after its birth
Like a ghetto Dad
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"scientists create the heaviest antimatter nucleus so far"
The normal matter version only lasts about 140 "yoctoseconds"; presumably the antimatter version has the same half-life.
Anti-helium is pretty nearly the same mass: from 2011
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'Gonna go buy a pack of quarks, be right back.'
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Washington Examiner] The U.S. military can no longer disqualify recruits who have undetectable viral loads of HIV from serving in the military.
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. regulators approved updated COVID-19 vaccines on Thursday, shots designed to more closely target recent virus strains -- and hopefully whatever variants cause trouble this winter, too.
[CyberNews] M$ After announcing that its "Recall" feature, takes screenshots of all a user's activities and saves it. 
